A multidisciplinary artist looking through portals and hovering between enlightenment, fantasy and bogus wisdom. I make sculptural forms, installations, films and paintings as a means to explore the ambiguous, magical and sometimes fragile interconnectedness between histories, materials, beliefs and bodies of all kinds.
Installation view at Site Gallery, Sheffield. Originally commissioned for Jerwood Survey III (2024-25), led by Southwark Park Galleries and supported by Jerwood Arts. Photo: Jules Lister, 2024.
A summoning (I would shed my skin for you), mixed media sculptural installation. 2024
A new commission for Jerwood Survey 3 at Southwark Park Galleries, Dilston Gallery, London 6th April- 23rd June 2024.
Detail, A summoning (I would shed my skin for you), mixed media sculptural installation. 2024
A new commission for Jerwood Survey 3 at Southwark Park Galleries, Dilston Gallery, London 6th April- 23rd June 2024.
Detail, A summoning (I would shed my skin for you), mixed media sculptural installation. 2024
A new commission for Jerwood Survey 3 at Southwark Park Galleries, Dilston Gallery, London 6th April- 23rd June 2024.
‘A summoning (I would shed my skin for you)’ 2024. Installation view at g39, Cardiff. Originally commissioned for Jerwood Survey III (2024-25), led by Southwark Park Galleries and supported by Jerwood Arts. Photo: Dan Weill
digital residency at Arcadecampfa, 9th-20th October 2023. link to view residency space https://arcade-campfa.org/Philippa-Brown
horror-scapes a sticky and haunting fever/dream a collection of sounds, film images and thoughts about ageing. 2023
Take a break from the news, digital collage, 4900mm x 2442mm. Billboard commission at Spit and Sawdust. 2023
Take a break from the news, digital collage, 4900mm x 2442mm. Billboard commission at Spit and Sawdust. 2023
drawings for sculptures, oil and watercolour on paper. 40cm x 30cm, 2023
drawings for sculptures, collage, oil and watercolour on paper. 40cm x 30cm. 2023
drawings for sculptures, collage, oil and watercolour on paper. 40cm x 30cm. 2023
installation view, ‘Soft split the stone’ g39, Cardiff. 2023
Future ruin and fatal enchantment, Mixed media sculpture ‘In the Same Breath - Installation view at Freelands Foundation. Photo: Andy Stagg’ 2023
Future ruin and fatal enchantment, Mixed media sculpture ‘In the Same Breath - Installation view at Freelands Foundation. Photo: Andy Stagg’ 2023
‘In the Same Breath - Installation view at Freelands Foundation. Photo: Andy Stagg’ 2023
Horror-scopes (From the House of Opal Fingers) 2022
LoveBomb. Papier mache, plaster, found photos, paint, wig and rug. 2022
Relinquary, plaster, papier mâché, mussel shells, wood, paint, synthetic feather, 2022. photo Paisley Randell Shillabeer.
Gone to ground. Mussel shells, stick, hair, glove and string. in situ at Pontygwaith Bridge, Commisioned for annual Red route walk between Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil. May Day 2022.
self portraits, still images, 2021
untitled, papermache, hair, tin foil and paint. 2020
collection of studio talismans. Blancmange, potato, clay, enamel, paint and hair. 2020
covid drawings (bacteria) watercolour and ink on paper, 20cm 30cm, 2021
covid drawings (lockdown) watercolour and ink on paper, 20cm x 30cm, 2020
You too could be the life and soul of any party. mixed media and AV projection. g39. 2019
Deep past near future.Jelly, earth, enamel and clay in a hole. g39. 2019
You too could be the life and soul of any party. mixed media and AV projection. g39. 2019
Women (me). silk scarf, gloves, prints. Oriel Canfas. 2018
Woman (me) creeping about. silk scarf, gloves, prints.Oriel Canfas. 2018
Witchcraft for club kids, fabric, paint, tape, spider plants. Arcadecampfa. 2017
untitled, mixed media. Arcadecampfa. 2017
untitled, t-shirt, paint, clay, tape. Arcadecampfa. 2017
oil paint and wood on fabric. 2018